* Kevin: Currently Noisebridge's bank account is Hell's Cargo, which is an evil bank. Let's switch to something less evil, like a local credit union. Maybe [http://www.sffirecu.org San Francisco Fire Credit Union]? They have an education business account(?) and pay 2.5% interest and invest locally.

+

** Why do we have Hell's Cargo…? Apparently last time Noisebridge proposed a switch away we didn't because it's just a bit of a pain, and a few people had direct deposits set up into our account.

+

** [[User:Malaclyps|Danny]: People have pledged to donate so long as we switch from PayPal

+

** [[User:SuperQ|Ben]: SFFireCU has terrible IT but great customer service, while most banks have decent IT but terrible customer service...so while their tech is bad, at least they will fix it?

Consensus items

Discussion Notes

Hell's Cargo (i.e., Wells Fargo)

Kevin: Currently Noisebridge's bank account is Hell's Cargo, which is an evil bank. Let's switch to something less evil, like a local credit union. Maybe San Francisco Fire Credit Union? They have an education business account(?) and pay 2.5% interest and invest locally.

Why do we have Hell's Cargo…? Apparently last time Noisebridge proposed a switch away we didn't because it's just a bit of a pain, and a few people had direct deposits set up into our account.

[[User:Malaclyps|Danny]: People have pledged to donate so long as we switch from PayPal

[[User:SuperQ|Ben]: SFFireCU has terrible IT but great customer service, while most banks have decent IT but terrible customer service...so while their tech is bad, at least they will fix it?

Someone (Danny? Leif?) will write a consensus proposal for next week's meeting

Attendance

Leif: Has been here for quite a while; currently interested in tahoe-lafs; started tahoe grid with tor hidden services

Angel: New to Noisebridge; does graphic design, video; wants to get more into coding

J.C.: Does hacking in general; working on creating more hackerspace in the North Bay

Joe Black: Does security, Unix, web development; first heard of Noisebridge via Mitch; has been here a couple months

Nick Shapiro: Makes games; is hiring!

Kyle: Architecture student studying Noisebridge as a community and as a space; has been here for a few months

Dan: Does any programming, web services, ...

Dan #2: Has been coming for few months; first heard of Noisebridge via a radio interview with Mitch a few years ago; has been programming so long that he is temporarily bored with it, but still gets his hands dirty with code

Dana: Likes to work on LED stuff; is today working on wearable electronics

Kevin: Has been coming for a couple months as well; does a bunch of things on the computer; works in the wood shop every once in a while; also works in kitchen; is doing well

Danny: Has been coming to Noisebridge for 3-4 years; thinks a lot and tries to write about technological culture

Joe: Third time here; has known about Noisebridge an embarrassingly long time but lived in Mountain View so he went to Hacker Dojo instead; tricked into being a computer guy; writes code, looking to build a stove

Rupert: Visting from Montreal (greetings from FooLab!); first time at Noisebridge but has known about Noisebridge for a long time (we're pretty famous :p); glad to be here and see what's going on; does hardware and software and woodshop

Luke: Also visiting from Montreal; Noisebridge is impressive, enjoys it very much; into computer vision and machine learning

Lassl: Visiting from Norway! Here for 3 days; came to Noisebridge today because he was looking for fruit but saw the Noisebridge banner and went in; electrical engineer but got bored of organized 90 degree lines, so he started doing graphic design and font and web development